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Radyo D

Audience Share

Ownership Type

Geographic Coverage

Content Type

Data Publicly Available

ownership data is easily available from other sources, e. g. public registries etc.

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Media Companies / Groups

Doğan Group

Ownership

Ownership Structure

Owned by one company

Voting Rights

According to Article 434 of Turkish Commercial Code, shareholders in corporations ('Anonim Şirket’) use their voting rights in proportion with their shares’ nominal value. Each shareholder has at least one vote, however voting rights might be limited, or given more weight with articles of association. Moreover, public companies may issue shares without voting rights according to Article 14/A of Capital Markets Law.

Individual Owner

General Information

Founding Year

1996

Founder

Aydın Doğan

Affiliated Interests Founder

Aydın Doğan is the founder and honorary chairman of Doğan Holding. He founded his first industrial company in 1974. He became a publisher with the acquisition of Milliyet in 1979 and later on Hürriyet in 1994. He established Aydın Doğan Foundation in 1996. He was hit with a record $2.5bn tax fine, sending its shares down 20 per cent after a year-long confrontation with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. After Erdoğan went online on Doğan Media's CNN Türk during the coup attempt (15 July 2015), and called the people of Turkey to the streets to resist the military, relations between the government and the company seemed to get smoother.

Ceo

Arzuhan Doğan Yalçındağ

Affiliated Interests Ceo

Arzuhan Doğan Yalçındağ, CEO of Doğan TV Holding and board member of Doruk Televizyon ve Radyo Yayıncılık A.Ş., DTV Haber ve Görsel Yayıncılık A.Ş., Eko TV Televizyon ve Radyo Yayıncılık A.Ş., Doğan Holding A.Ş., Adilbey Holding A.Ş. She is daughter of Aydın Doğan, founder of Doğan Holding. became the CFO of Milliyet Magazine Group. She then joined Kanal D in 1996. CNN Turk was launched as a result of her negotiations with Time Warner Group. In 2005, she became the CEO of Doğan TV Holding. In 2007, she was elected as the first female President of the country’s leading business organization, TÜSİAD.

Meta Data

Detailed information on the finances and ownership can easily be found on the official website, because the holding is publicly traded. Family members are shareholders of a subsidiary company called Adilbey Holding, which owns 49.32% of the mother group.